Diderot and the art of thinking freely:
"A vivacious biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who along with Voltaire and Rousseau built the foundations of the modern world, and travelled as far as Russia to enlighten the Tsarina Catherine the Great. Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to brin...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "A vivacious biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who along with Voltaire and Rousseau built the foundations of the modern world, and travelled as far as Russia to enlighten the Tsarina Catherine the Great. Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopédie into existence. But his most compelling and personal writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison for his atheism in 1749, Diderot decided to reserve his most daring books for posterity-for us, in fact. In the astonishing cache of unpublished writings that he left behind after his death, Diderot dreamed of natural selection before Darwin, the Oedipus complex before Freud, and genetic manipulation centuries before Dolly the Sheep was born. Even more audaciously, the writer challenged virtually all of his century's accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of slave trade, to the limits of human sexuality. He was also keenly aware of the dangers of absolute power, about which he wrote so persuasively that it led Catherine the Great not only to support him financially but also to invite him to St. Petersburg. In this thematically organized biography, Andrew Curran vividly describes Diderot's tormented relationship with Rousseau, his feud with Voltaire, his tortured marriage, his passionate affairs, and his often-paradoxical stand on art, morality, and religion. But what this book brings out most brilliantly is how a man's character flaws and limitations are often the flip side of his genius and his ability to break taboos, dogmas, and conventions"... |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 520 Seiten Illustrationen, Portraits |
| ISBN: | 9781590516706 9781635420395 |
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prologue Unburying Diderot 1
PART one: forbidden fruits
i The Abbot from Langres 19
11 Leaving God 49
ill A Philosophe in Prison 75
iv The Enlightenment Bible 101
v The Encyclopedic Hair Shirt 133
PART two: late harvest
vi On Virtue and Vice 179
vii On Art: Diderot at the Louvre 201
viii On the Origin of Species 233
ix The Sexologist 259
x On Love 293
xi A Voyage to Russia: Politics, Philosophy,
and Catherine the Great 315
xn Last Words: Speaking to Despots
and American Insurgents 345
epilogue Walking between Two Eternities 375
Acknowledgments 403
Chronology 407
Cast of Characters 417
Notes 423
Works Cited 479
Illustrations 501
Index 507
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